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Oedipus Rex (1967)

Oedipus Rex (1967)

Drama

Pasolini’s Terrifying… Compassionate… Magnificent…

Release Date: 1967, September 7
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Countries: Italy
Production: Somafis, Arco Film
Cast: Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Ninetto Davoli, Alida Valli, Laura Betti, Julian Beck, Isabel Ruth, Carmelo Bene, Luciano Bartoli, Francesco Leonetti, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Ahmed Belhachmi

Overview:

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Oedipus that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…